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| Main intention writing such a page was and is, that we had and hopefully will have some visitors from philippines. Those persons, which |
| are usually relatives, grow up with a different cultural background and had in the past sometimes a hard time getting familar |
| with the surrounding, culture and food in germany. My focus is, because of that more people who are not from a western country, |
| even they will find hopefully something interesting as well. |
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| When I tried writing about german culture as a person who live and grow up here I know a little about what I wanted to write, but
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| I cannot explain where it comes from or what the background is. Quite helpful was a book I found more accidentally - BORCHMEYER,
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| Dieter: Was ist Deutsch: Die Suche einer Nation nach sich selbst (Translation: What is german: The search of a nation after itself.)
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| Even the title describe, that for a german it is not so easy, to explain what is typically german. One of the hints in this book is
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| that the german area or even where in Europe people speak german, was divided to many principalities, countys, smaller and
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| bigger kingdoms and other areas. This was like that until around 1800 a. C. Based on this situation this areas had their own money,
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| regional laws and many other things which arrange the life for the normal people with eachother. Of course there was a very long
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| long time before the Holy Roman Empire but arround 1800 the people develop political ideas and the church and the aristrocracy slowly
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| lost the power they had over ages. Beside this ideas influences poets, composer and other artists and with their stories, music
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| and paintings cultural epoches from classic to romantic, which is still a big part in the heads of germans, but even in the one of
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| foreigner. I don't want to write a complete historical report about what happened after this, just would like to mention that
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| the two wars and specially the rise of the nationalsocialists and their barbarical actions gave even a big cut in germans own
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| understanding and identy. After this cut I believe we germans identify ourself more regional, like as frankonian, hessian, etc.
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